Senator Bacon as a Cook and a Colored Assistant Tale
A Georgia senator Augustus C Bacon is praised for statesmanship and gravity in social moments. A Saturday Evening Post remark recounts a hunting trip anecdote where Bacon, while presiding over terrapin soup, learns the helper cannot tell he is the senator. The humor centers on whether Bacon is a cook or a steward.
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United States
Augustus C. Bacon
Georgia
Senate Deates
Saturdey Evening Post
Bette
George
Felf
Farmers Plowing Thin Soil Find Moral in Comic Tale
The New York Times recounts a farmer tilling soil so thin and gravelly that harvest seems impossible, yet the clerkly minister jokes the field may yield “what’s on the other side.” The piece reflects on folk striving for livings amid stumps and rocks and a story of resilience.
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New York Times
Edward Judson
Judson
New York
Dr. Judson
Providence
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Miss Davis Converts to Islam in Constantinople
An American College in Sailar reports Miss Davis, a tutor for a Turkish family and teacher at the Girls College, renounced her faith to marry a pupil’s uncle, joining Mohammedanism, sparking perturbation among the local American colony.
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Constantinople
Miss Davis
American College For Girls
Sailar
Slow Travel Ly Africa Miss Stephens Describes Mission Transport
In a letter dated May 28 1902 Marie Stephens details slow transport from a mission station to Freetown and back. She notes 125 mile land moves by workers to Yates Porterfield Trading for supplies packed in 60 pound loads, carriers meeting river boats, and a 65 mile head load by a wiry boy. A tornadoweather and temple of hills near Kong Mountains are described along with daily church observances and lessons at the alma mater.
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Mission Station
Freetown
Yates & Porterfield Trading Company
Jesus
Bokari
Palma Hids
Kong Mountains
Ya Boardman
Jesus Christ
Excursions to Atlantic City by Pennsylvania Railroad 1902
The Pennsylvania Railroad announces annual low excursion trips to Atlantic City Cape May Ocean City Eagle City Avalon Anglesea Wildwood Holley Beach Rehoboth and Ocean City Md with travel on July 10 and 24 August 7 and 21 and September 11. Special Pullman parlor cars depart Pittsburgh 8 55 AM via the Delaware River Bridge Route reaching Atlantic City 8 35 PM. Tickets are valid return within sixteen days. overnight options in Philadelphia are available and several stopovers are allowed on certain dates. Tickets and schedules shown with multiple departure times from Pittsburgh East Liberty Braddock Wilmerding Irwin and other stations.
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Pennsylvania H Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Avalon
Anglesea
Wildwood
Holley Beach
N. J
Rehoboth
Del
Pittsburg
Altoona
Philadelphia
Delaware River Bridge
Market Street Wharf
Broad Atrest Station
Paggengere
Broadstreet Station
Tates
Saved a Woman's Life by Dr Kings New Discovery
A Dorchester Massachusetts woman credits Dr Kings New Discovery for curing her chronic lung and throat trouble after years of suffering. She endured severe symptoms and near suffocation before finding relief with the remedy, which she says restored her breathing and voice.
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Lois Cragg
Dorchester
Mass
King
Indiana
School directors plan July meetings for teachers and bids
Grean township directors meet at Cookport on July 31 at 9 a.m. to elect sixteen teachers for the coming term with wages from 23 to 35 dollars. Bids for fuel are due at the same time and place. Also Shelocta borough directors meet July 19 at 7 p.m. to elect one teacher with wages of 90 dollars monthly and bids for fuel due then. BH. L. McCULLOUGH and B. LEASURE sign. Secretary JAMES SPEEDY and S. M. LOWMAN sign. President. AN ORDINANCE provides for a public sewer system in Indiana borough and White township, detailing filter bed disposal, east and west mains, and installation across several streets and private lands, with costs by general taxation. Henry Hall, President of Council. cler. doc. The Georgeville Independent School District directors meet July 26 at 1 p.m. to elect a teacher for the coming term, wage 30 dollars per month. Bids for fuel due then. REER and J. M. SIMPSON, President etc.
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Gaston
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Cookport
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Armstrong Township
Anthony School
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Thos. Anderson
Washington Township
A.C. Biddle
John Johnston
Young Township
Anderson
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Shelocta Borough
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Brushvalley Township
Mechanicsburg
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G. BR. Stewart
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